Six Types Of Facebook Posts That Will Generate Sales Leads For Your Company

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Include links in captions; photos on
Facebook Pages receive 53% more Likes than the average
post

Host a Facebook Chat to bring fans
together around a conversation topic on your Page

Make Facebook events for webinars,
because fans receive notification for popular activity on that
Event Page. Plus, a Facebook Event is more visible in the News
Feed than a standard Facebook post

Use targeted advertising to extend your content's
reach; 64% of U.S. advertisers are upping their
social ad budget in 2013

Build forms on Page tabs so fans
don't have to leave Facebook to submit their
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BI
Intelligence

Facebook Approaches The 200 Million Club In U.S. Audience
Numbers, But Yahoo Grows Faster (BI Intelligence)When accounting for both mobile and desktop audiences
in the U.S., Facebook is approaching the exclusive 200 million
club in unique visitor numbers, according
to comScore data shared with BI
Intelligence.

That club is currently only occupied by Google and Yahoo sites,
which ended June with 225.1 and 214.3 million U.S. unique
visitors across mobile and desktop, respectively.

Video Ads Could Boost Facebook's Ad Revenue 15% (Morgan
Stanley) Morgan Stanley Facebook
Analyst Scott Devitt believes video ads could be a hit for
Facebook and may boost total revenue by 15% within one to two
years.

Facebook Tries To Court More Celebrities To Its
Platform (All Things
D) Facebook has tasked one of its
internal team to court and "hand-hold" celebrities into using
Facebook more actively. In some cases, the team will even offer
incentives for those who post. Recently, the social network
rolled out verified accounts. All of these efforts seem to be a
play into the public domain, hoping that users will share more
news and entertainment
stories.Read
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Statista

WhatsApp Reaches 300 Million Active
Users (Statista) The popular
mobile messaging app has surpassed 300 million active users, up
from 250 million less than two months ago. What's more, its users
send 11 billion messages per day.Read
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